Granulated White Sugar

There’s a debate in the baking world about which is better, granulated white cane sugar or granulated white beet sugar. Sugar beets and sugar cane are very different plants, so it would not be surprising that a sweetener refined from each of them might have different properties and therefore a different effect in baking. Since beet sugar and cane sugar look the same, we may not always consider that possibility. I’ve heard bakers say that beet sugar can’t be used in baking. That is categorically not true. Many European countries use primarily beet sugar. Our recipes were created with cane sugar, but for many years we used Michigan beet sugar in our school with the same recipes, and they were delicious! Feel free to use either interchangeably.